Audit Considerations - Accounting Estimates (Oct 24)
Category: Audit | Duration: 1hr | Tag: VODUK2467 | Type: Video | Course Level: Intermediate | Speaker: Lindsay Webber | Date: 17/10/2024 10:00
Course Details
In an era of complex financial instruments and evolving accounting standards, auditing accounting estimates has become a high-stakes challenge for financial professionals. We have noticed an increase focus on this area in monitoring visits. Are you equipped to navigate the intricacies of fair value measurements, impairment assessments, and other estimates?
This course will arm you with advanced techniques to tackle even the most complex estimates with confidence. Don't let uncertainty in estimates compromise the integrity of your audits – secure your spot now and stay ahead in this critical area of auditing.
This course will equip you with the knowledge and tools to:
- Identify and assess risks associated with accounting estimates
- Evaluate the reasonableness of management's assumptions
- Apply appropriate audit procedures to test complex estimates
- Navigate the requirements of relevant auditing standards
- Communicate effectively with management about estimate-related issues
CPD Course Speaker
OmniPro Strategic Solutions
Lindsay Webber
As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.